Wasn't up to the standards of the first. There was hardly any adultery, just Charleton Heston and Karen Black. I assume their relationship was adulterous. I wasn't paying close attention.
I wondered how Myrna Loy felt about Gloria Swanson playing herself with people gushing over how good she looked at 75. Swanson wrote her own lines. Myrna Loy was just five years younger and played an aging alcoholic, perhaps a callback to her role in The Thin Man films.
With Norman Fell, Jerry Stiller, Conrad Janis, Helen Reddy, Erik Estrada, Larry Storch and Sid Ceasar, Large Marge (Alice Nunn) from Peewee's Big Adventure, Sharon Gless from Cagney and Lacey. Linda Blair as a girl being rushed to get a kidney transplant; played much the same sickly sweet character she did in early scenes of The Exorcist. Former Roger Corman regular Beverly Garland just three years after her role as Fred MacMurray's second wife on My Three Sons.
Dana Andrews flying a small plane crashes into a 747. Everybody is sucked out of the cockpit except pilot Efrem Zimbalist, Jr, but he was hit in the face and is blinded so plucky stewardess Karen Black takes charge.
George Kennedy plays the same character he did in the original Airport although he's had a promotion. Susan Clark from Webster and Brain Morrison, the grandson from Maude, play his wife and son on the flight.
Free on Tubi.
It was huge in its day. If you haven't seen it, it will explain some of the jokes in Airplane!
I don't think I'm spoiling anything, but these movies have surprisingly low death tolls considering everything.
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